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Author proposes the solution to authoritarianism is more laws and more government intervention. That's not the solution, that's the definition!

sayno3 8y ago
Anarchistic unrestricted capitalism will just pool the resources to one person/group until they can do whatever they want anyway. And there won't be anything to stop them. We just need enough laws to prevent the accumulation of wealth and power.
- yakshaving_jgt 8y ago
  We also need to make sure tens of millions of people don’t die this time around.
  - sayno3 8y ago
    I assume you are referring to communism implemented by the Soviet Union or something along those lines. That was still central control of resources and power. The only thing that was communistic about that was how it was applied to the lowest rungs of society.
karmasimida 8y ago
That is the problem, what author thinks as ways to freedom, would probably viewed as means of slavery by the people on the other end of the spectrum. That is why while I am interested to read such article, it will never work: the author is talking to him/herself, while instead he/she supposedly should talk to people who disagree with him/her in the first place.
danans 8y ago
> That's not the solution, that's the definition! A legislature passing laws is not authoritarianism, but is instead the normal functioning of a legislature in a representative democracy, whether or not one agrees with the laws themselves. From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism "1. Limited political pluralism, that is such regimes place constraints on political institutions and groups like legislatures, political parties and interest groups" Authoritarianism is, among other things, about the head of government constraining the legislature from performing oversight of the head of government. It's about the head of government being effectively above the law, either by the law itself being changed to codify that, or by the non enforcement of laws against the head of government when they break them.
gerbilly 8y ago
> That's not the solution, that's the definition! Whether its the problem or the solution depends on the legitimacy of the government.

sayno3 8y ago

Anarchistic unrestricted capitalism will just pool the resources to one person/group until they can do whatever they want anyway. And there won't be anything to stop them. We just need enough laws to prevent the accumulation of wealth and power.

yakshaving_jgt 8y ago
We also need to make sure tens of millions of people don’t die this time around.
- sayno3 8y ago
  I assume you are referring to communism implemented by the Soviet Union or something along those lines. That was still central control of resources and power. The only thing that was communistic about that was how it was applied to the lowest rungs of society.

karmasimida 8y ago

That is the problem, what author thinks as ways to freedom, would probably viewed as means of slavery by the people on the other end of the spectrum. That is why while I am interested to read such article, it will never work: the author is talking to him/herself, while instead he/she supposedly should talk to people who disagree with him/her in the first place.

danans 8y ago

> That's not the solution, that's the definition! A legislature passing laws is not authoritarianism, but is instead the normal functioning of a legislature in a representative democracy, whether or not one agrees with the laws themselves. From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism "1. Limited political pluralism, that is such regimes place constraints on political institutions and groups like legislatures, political parties and interest groups" Authoritarianism is, among other things, about the head of government constraining the legislature from performing oversight of the head of government. It's about the head of government being effectively above the law, either by the law itself being changed to codify that, or by the non enforcement of laws against the head of government when they break them.

gerbilly 8y ago

> That's not the solution, that's the definition! Whether its the problem or the solution depends on the legitimacy of the government.